Mr. Pekar had an amazing ability to show the gritty and hilarious reality of our everyday lives.
He is also so thoroughly Cleveland..
Harvey, you are missed.
The "working man's intellectual." My brother and I loved the American Splendor comic as kids, even though some of the adult-oriented content was over our heads. A great writer has passed. I'll never forget Pekar saying of David Letterman, "Guy's just a fratboy". I miss TV like that.
I just picked up "Best of American Splendor" and "From Off the Streets of Cleveland" 2 weeks ago, having learned that I was Pekar's neighbor in Cleveland Heights. I moved here from the East Coast only a year ago, and was excited to read a local author and see illustrations of places I was just getting to know. He'll be missed, but thankfully there's a huge catalog of his work to read through.